I’m just sayin’. We were -10 at the house this morning. High of 5 expected today. Apparently, that was nothing compared to back in the day. Although there are many, many wonderful quotes in this article, my favorite has to be:

“The Portland Press Herald told of an overnight fire on James Street … it took five hours to fight the blaze in temperatures close to 30 below. A reporter paraphrased Fire Chief Oliver Sanborn as saying ‘water from the hoses froze instantly, and fell on (firefighters) like hail as it bounced off the walls of the building.’”